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We're moving across unmapped territory with tremendous strides. Almost daily someone, somewhere, reports a breakthrough into regions of knowledge that have been secret since the world began. The atom has been harnessed, manned space flights are just around the corner, and every discovery brings others in its train, for new techniques need new materials. Nuclear power has brought demands for materials with combinations of properties never needed before, and only found in metals put aside by scientists in the past as awkward curiosities. The production of these new metals for the nuclear engineer has presented scientists with one of their greatest challenges-a challenge that could only be met by a many-sided organisation such as I.C.I. Its wrought zirconium plant is Europe's largest, its new plant for making wrought beryllium will be Europe's first, and already I.C.I. scientists and technologists have plans for producing the other rare metals that may one day be needed for nuclear power stations and even for space rockets. It needs brains and money to keep up with events in this age of great discoveries, MARCH... and I.C.I., with a research staff of 4,500 and a research and development budget of El5 million a year, has both.